AIBU to take my favourite mug on holiday?

[Niceandeasy]

My husband thinks I’m mad. We’re just packing for our Summer holiday to Norfolk, and I’m packing my favourite mug to take with me. The thing is, we all know tea tastes better out of a good mug. And mugs in rental holiday homes are always crap - generally those awful Ikea ones with tiny handles. So sod it, I’m going to take my mug with me. I’m only taking one, I’m not even bringing my afternoon mug (yes, I have different shaped mugs for different times of day, is that just me??)

I know it will increase my enjoyment of this holiday, and we need all the help we can get there as, whilst I love Norfolk, we were meant to be going to Canada 😔

Anyone else take other home comforts with them away on holiday??

This is my fave mug.
It is vintage 80's Denby ware, bought by my lovely (long gone MIL) in 1988. There was a full dinner service, but we don't use it. I tell my DH its because its irreplaceable like his Mum. Actually its because I find it far too weird and wonderful to eat off. I have my suspicions the designer may have been on acid - well it was the 80's!

Bath sheet sized towel for me. Have bought new ones more times than I care to admit. Ok so I'm a bit overweight but what is it about small bath towels that don't even meet in the middle!! And coffee filter, that comes everywhere, even a single night in a hotel for work.

I remember being stopped at the airport in the early 90s because my mum had packed her favourite knife that she always took to Dorset with us. She was so disappointed to lose the knife, that the story was told for years about the best ever knifed that got away

Happy holidays OP.

@Niceandeasy

Ok, I’m slightly nervous to do this, as I know mug preference is very personal, so no judgement. Here’s my favourite (morning) mug.

Show us yer mugs!

@Niceandeasy How disappointing, for a moment there I really thought I had found my mug twin, but it was not meant to be .

Here is my favourite Whittards mug.

I adore my portmerion mug and filter, bought from their cheap seconds outlet in Stoke. I have been known to go back there (a 4 hour drive) to buy another mug set because I couldn't find the filters anywhere else and mine had died

considering another trip for a spare mug.

The optimal situation I feel would be a non-breakable but still acceptable mug for travelling. I camp a lot and it has to be my favourite robust thermal mug and tall plastic tumbler, and favourite water bottle. Although I don't think I'd find my thermal mug an acceptable vessel if staying in a holiday cottage. Hmmmm. This needs thought.

I do also have another lovely mug but I love it because it has a personal photo on it rather than because of the mug itself.

Fave mug

I have a collection of mugs that have each been bought on holidays as the sc ones were so bad or tiny. Some years, I remember to bring a decent one from home.

This year, we stayed in a family holiday house where mugs are fine. But we brought our own sheets, duvet and pillows, and so did dd. And dd also used my camp bed a couple of nights (we had brought my new tent to pitch and check in their garden so I was planning to sleep in that for a night).

I also have a box, that has evolved into camping but started as my self catering box. All the things that are always missing that we really want. A small proper chopping board. A decent sharp knife. Veg peeler I can use and a corkscrew, tin opener, wooden spoon, tongs, whisk. Pot scrub, wash up brush, silicon oven gloves, wash up liquid, dishwasher and washing machine tablets, matches and a couple of night light candles, j cloth, 1 hand and 1 tea towel, clean pegs (for laundry or closing food bags, some clippits occasionally (but they end up back in the kitchen too often to be certain of including...), salt and pepper mills, handful of teabags, coffee plunger and grounds....

It's a mix of things that are always there, and consumables that are replaced when we get home.

I took mine and smashed it :(

@Nacreous me too, I’m glad I’m not alone! My husband thinks I’m bonkers for taking my knife roll but it makes me so much happier!

@WinterAndRoughWeather thank you so much for the podcast recommendation - I hadn’t heard of it and I love James Acaster, that’s going to keep me amused sorting out the kitchen today!

I’m lucky to have been going to the same apartment a few times a year for the last few years and the lovely landlady lets me keep a couple of mugs there, now that’s customer service!

Yadnbu!

Take the mug. There is nothing worse than hasn’t even wet the sides mug or the tiny smoke glass Pyrex ones.

I always buy a new mug when on holiday.
I once got a massive mug (like good 2 cups of tea in one mug) in Singapore Universal of all places.
It’s a Black Battlestar Galactica Cylon mug and is the best holiday purchase I’ve ever made.

We lived in Germany for some years and when we first arrived, we were staying in academics accommodation for three months while we looked for a rental. The place was very basic but had crockery etc in the kitchen. The tiniest floral teacups on earth! We spent a week or so drinking miserable multiple cups of tiny tea (there was no teapot) before we were able to buy mugs!

The white IKEA stacking mugs with little handles make the best tea. None of the other IKEA ones will do.

For years I bought decent sized mugs, nice drinking glasses, serving dishes and spoons, non-stick frying pans, candles and sharp knives when we went abroad to pimp my ride. It was a lot cheaper usually than paying for the places that had the sort of things I liked.

Nowadays I have my own little place in the sun, but if I were holidaying in this country and going by car, hell I'd just go for it.

Fill your boots OP! 😄

I always take my insulated mug and my knives.

I take a decent mug, non stick frying pan, chopping board, and knife. Stuff in rental places can be hit and miss. They provide glass chopping boards because they look better for longer, but they blunt knives. It becomes a pain in the neck to cook anything without the ability to cut stuff.

@CarolVordermansArse

The white IKEA stacking mugs with little handles make the best tea. None of the other IKEA ones will do.

That's as maybe, but they are tiny and difficult to hold properly.

I like a leisurely cup of tea on holiday. Not one i need to keep refilling.

YANBU. That's the beauty of staycations. You can bung all the crap in your car and not worry about airline baggage rules.

I went to a conference where all the tea and coffee was served in the most ridiculously tiny cups with miniature handles. One charity in the exhibition hall was selling lovely big mugs with their logo on. Don't think I was the only one that bought one, and it is still my favourite mug for tea. But not coffee. Coffee tastes better in the strange green splodgy mug that DH is very rude about.

I'm slightly in awe of the people that pack entire coffee machines though.

Absolutely nothing wrong with taking your favourite mug. I have a large one (almost half a litre capacity) in Tuscan colours for my hot cocoa and a different large one for tea. Also take my own preferred brand of cocoa making stuff (not that I'm fussy...) plus a selection of teas. And raw almonds as snacks.

I always take my furry hot water bottle (fill it with cold water for hot days), deep feather pillow and if I'm staying a few days my own goose-down & feather duvet.

I do like my home comforts... 😀🌹

Just be careful my friend took her (discontinued) favourite mug away when we went to stay in the highlands and after an extra glass of wine (but she wasn't pissed) she dropped her before bed cup of tea and smashed it all over the kitchen floor and soaking her socks!

I don't think she ever really got over it but has somehow with great perseverance managed to move on with her life.

I always do this... I like my pint( porcelain) mug rather than a thimble full

We take our tempur pillows, favourite mugs/cups, huge sage coffee machine, own hairdryer, straighteners and plenty m and s biscuits.

I refuse to do without my favourite things for a week or two on hol!

Thank you OP. I thought it was just me. My DH thinks I am weird for taking my own mug and a packet of chocolate hobnobs I love a brew first thing but I can't stand those clumpy thick mugs you get in hotel bedrooms. And are they ever really clean?
Nobody please mention dirty kettles.

I have taken our favourite mugs on holiday three times now. I forgot last year for some reason. They’ve been up to Scotland and down to Devon. And yes they’re EB. I collect it. I have a lot of mugs.